"TOP 10 REASONS TO LISTEN TO MY ALBUM!"

As an independent artist in the midst of self-releasing my first full-length, one important question keeps coming up: How can I ask people to listen without being super annoying and/or losing my soul? I’m not in a position to tour at the moment, so with a new album out, what else can be done to stand out in a world filled with cheap clickable gimmicks and short attention spans? Flashy merchandise bundles? Sure. Uncomfortable self-promotion on social media? Don’t remind me. But do I need to create all this additional “content” in order to gain attention, or is simply making music enough? It used to be. There was a time when sitting down with an album from start to finish was an incredibly gratifying experience. The only thing better was